The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-03-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Punsont Sermon With q Sting
ing Subject

a 1unSout sermon Win q sung
ing Subject
Tho Bersst ~ typical ofths Small Anroy-
antss of lile-Consoiatioa For the
| Ovsrworksd-Thsl improvement
OF Adverse Iaausaces.
Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage chose for the
.ub5ect OF . rocont sermon in Brooklyn
Tabernacle 'Stinging An,oyauces,'
which he illustrated from the text:
IN" ford. Thy God viii ssna tas Aornet-
Deut. Ill.,, 20.
He said: 1t seems ~ II the insect world
wore determined to war against the hu-
man race 1t il every year attacking the
grain fields, and tho orchards, and the
vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Ne
braska grasshoypcr. the New, Jersey To-
Gust, the universal potato destroyer, soon
to carry on the work which was begun
| ages ago when the insects buzEed out Of
Noah's ark as tho door was opened.
In my text the hornet flies out on its
mission. 1t Is species of wasp, swift in
its motion and violent in its sting. Its
touch Is torture to man or beast. We
have all seen the cattle run believing
| from the cut 81 its lancet. In boy
heed VIC used to stand cautiously looking
at the globular nest hung from the tree
! branch, and whilt VIC wcro looking at the
wonderful pastclOard covering we were
struck with something that sent us
| sh,ieking away. The hornet goes in
| swarms. 1t has captains over hundreds.
| AMI twenty Of them attacking one man
W II produce certain death. The Pcrsians
| attempted to coaQuer u Christian city.
but the elephants and the beasts on which
| the Persians rode were assaulted by the
hornet, SO that tho whole army was
broken up and the besieged city was
rescued. This blrning and noxious IN
| sect s,ung out the hi,tites and Guarantees
| from their country. What the cleaning
| sword and chariot OF war could not accom-
plish was done bt the puacture OF an in
| sect. Tie Lord sent the hornet.
Ely friends, when we are assaulted by
behcmOths of trOublc-great bchcmoths Of
trouble-we become chivalric. aud we as
sault them; we get on the high-mettled
steed OF cur courage, and make cavalry
charge at them, and ii God be with us,
we come out stronger and better than
when we went in. But. alas for these in
scciilc annOyanccs of life-thesc foes too
small to shoot-thcse things without any
avoirdupOis wcight-the gnnts, and tho
midges. and the flies, aud tho wasps. and
the hornetsi In other words, it is the
singing anncyances of our life which
dive us out and use up. Into the best
conditioned life, for some grand and glo-
rious purpose, God send, the hornet.
l remark in the first place, that these
small singing annovunccs may come in
the shape If 4 sensitive nervous organiza-
ticn. People who are Frustrated under
typhoid fever or with broken bones get
plenty of sympathy, but who rites any
body who is nervous! Tho doctors say,
and the family says, and every body says:
"Oh! she's only little nervous; that's
ALL"
The sound of heavy foot. the harsh
clearing of a throat, discOrd in music, a
want Of harmony between tho shawl and
the glove on the same person, curt an
swer, passing slight, the wind from the
cast, any one of ten thousand annoyances.
opens the door for the hornet.
The fact is. that the vast M jority Of the
people in this country are overworiSed,
and their nerves arc tho first to give out.
A great multitude are under the strain Of
Leyden. who, when no was told By his
physician that if he did not stop working
while he was in such poor physical health
he would die. responded:
doctor, whether l live or die, the
wheel mt st keep going around"
These persons of whom sneak have a
bleeding sensitivcness. Tho flies love to
light on anything raw, AMI these pope
are like the Canaanitcs spoken of in the
text or in the coatcxt-:hey have a very
thin covering and are vulnerable AT all
points. And the Lord sent the hornet.
Again, these small insect annoyanc,s
may come to us in the shape Of friends
ard acquaintance who are always saying
disagreeabls things. There are some
people you can not b, with for half ar
Eour but you feel cheered aud co,nforted.
Then there are Other reopl, who can not
be with you for five minutes before you
feel miserable. Tncy 10 not IN ,an to dis
iurb you. but they sting you to the bone.
They gather up all the yarn which tho
cossps spin and pcld it. They gather
up all the adverse criticisms about yuur
person, about YOU" business. about your
horne, about your church, AMI they make
your ear the funnel into winch they pour
it. They laugh heartily when they tell
you, AS though it were a ,Ol joke, and
you laugh toO-outsidc.
These people are brought to our atten-
ton in The Bible, in the Book of Ruth:
Naomi went forth beau tiful auI with tho
fiGcst OF worldly prospects into another
land, but after awhile she came back
Widowed, and sick, AMI pOor. What did
her friends do when she cams back to the
city. They all went out, and, instead of
giving her cOmmon-senso consol ,tiOn.
4 =, a 4 L. y \
and find out. They threw up their hands
and said:
lis this Naoni.'
As much as to say:
''HOw very bad You looki''
Whom l entered the ministry looked
cry pale for years, and every year. for
four o. five years. hundrci tines year,
l was asliei if was not in o consump D.
ton; AMI passing through tho room l
would sometimes hear people sign and
cry:
''A-ahl not long for this wOrldm
resolved in those times that never, in
any conversation, wouli say any thi ne de-
pressing, and by the help of God have
kept the resolution. These people Of whom
! speak reap and bind in the great harvest
field Of encouragement. Some days you
grew IhcNu Win u ulltTlOuS OOOU morn
ing," and they come buzzing at you with
some depressing information. Tho Lord
sent the hornet.
tits astonishin; how some people prefer
to write and to saw disagreeable things
That was the case when years ago Henry
NJ. Stanley returned after his magnificent
exploit Of finding DR.. David Livingstone,
and when Mr.. Stanley stool before
the savants of Europe. and many
of the small critics of tho day, under
pretensc of getting geographical i'll
formation, put to him most iusolent ques-
tiOns. he folded his arms and rafused IN